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09-20-2009, 07:14 PM
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Re: Nicole Catsouras 'Nikki' Lost Control of Porsche, Hits Toll Booth Gory Pictures
for one if your gonna post something like this you should read what the article says first. the parents didnt give her the keys to a car like that.she snuck the keys and drove the car...... |
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09-22-2009, 02:15 AM
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Re: Nicole Catsouras 'Nikki' Lost Control of Porsche, Hits Toll Booth Gory Pictures
Here are some statistics for ya! I used the info gathered in this post, as data for a calculus problem that I had to share with my Calculus class.. The goal was to find her rate of deceleration. She went from 0-100mph, Porsches are pretty fast right? So Let's say that she did this in 5 seconds! 100-0/5 is 20, right? Now convert that to ft/sec, 20(5280)/3600 you get -29.33 ft/sec^2 acceleration due to gravity is -32 ft/sec^2 This is interesting because she nearly hit the brick wall as fast as she would of been falling at a certain height. This is why that impact caused so much damage! She hit that wall at a rate equivalent to nearly someone falling off of a 2-3 story building. There might be a lot of other factors to add, but with this info hopefully it's easier to see why the impact caused the type of damage it did. I found it to be quite weird that someone could survive out of falling from a 2 or 3 story building, but would be destroyed if they crashed into a wall at the same speed as falling.
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